Chinese Timeline

Steel

The Chinese was the first to make steel. Steel is less brittle than ironand can bend into different objects easer.

50

Porcelain

Porcelain is a type fine pottery, made from combining clay with quartz and feldspar. Then, is baked in a kiln at a very high temperature.

100

Compass

Made of pieces of magnetic materials called lodestone. The Chinesethen later started to use a steel needle insted of loadstone.

150

Paper

Early paper was probably made from hemp and bark from the mulberry tree. Later the Chinses would use rags to make paper.

450

Paddle Wheel Boat

The Chinese started to adopt the idea of arranging paddles in a wheel and powered by sailors walking on a treadmill to turn the wheel and move through the water

618

Bridge

A Chinese engineer designed a new type of arched bridge, the new Chinese bridges had arches that were a smaller part of a cicle. This new design made the bridge broader and flatter, also it takes less materials to build and is stronger.

800

Paper Money

Like cards, paper money was printed with wood blocks. Before, the invention of paper money, the Chinese people would use coins or trade objects.

850

Gun Powder

Chinese alcemistis accidentaly discovered when looking for the secert for eturnal life.

950

Weapon using Gunpowder

The Chinese used gunpowder for the flamethrower, they were the first use gunpowder for weapons